Show Us Your Bryce Renders! Part 2
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Love the second one, David, somewhat bordering on the surreal - certainly not on planet Earth be this beach scene be! Third one looks like a Turner!
Jay
With the way you describe your ability to make things as you see them I would think creating actual 3D models would be a good hobby to develope that could lead to earning potential as there always seems to be a need for3D models to fill out peoples renders. Also creating pose sets might be another good avenue for making money as there seems to be so many people totally dependent on someone else's pose sets to position figures in their scenes.
This is often hard for people to accept but if your computer is a desktop computer it's actually better in the long run to just let it run 24/7 provided of course that it's got a good cooling setup and is in a place were it doesn't get too warm. The two biggest factors for causing electronics to fail is heat and power surges. Everytime you turn a computer on there is a power surge and over time it's that surge that shortens the life of the computer. In the respect it's actually better for your computer to just leave it running and let it go into hibernation when you're away from it for a long time. My current computer has been on pretty much 24/7 for 5 years now with the only exception being power failures or when I do hardware upgrades and it is still running strong. Now if your computer is a laptop then leaving it on isn't necessarily good due to the compact nature of laptops and how that tends to make them get pretty warm. Since there isn't too much you can do to improve their cooling in their case it's better to shut them down when not in use for long periods.
I have to second Dan's opinion shoreline 4 is very nice, the first one would be almost as nice if the area of wet sand between the surf and the rock on the right, wasn't so reflective.
I agree with the desktops being left on over night, down side being is you should vaccum it out more often as it will suck that much more dust and pet hair into it. as it stand I leave mine on 24/7 and as my Avatar pic shows I have at least 1 furry critter in the house.
the best things about leaving your desktop on all the time is you can schedule the maintenance stuff, for night time when you sleep, not just renders.. I have windows update scheduled for Wednesday nights, virus scans are 12am nightly.and I try to run long renders around those times, well except for wednesday nights as updates can cause reboots, which kills the render.
Certainly wasn't me and if I find out other males have been pulling my Peasant Girls there will be anarchy. I'm already running low on Peasant Girls this year, so all I need is someone coming along and trying to pull them!
@Rareth
Your character is developing quite a Julia Volkova likeness, which is good (see attached):
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Certainly wasn't me and if I find out other males have been pulling my Peasant Girls there will be anarchy. I'm already running low on Peasant Girls this year, so all I need is someone coming along and trying to pull them!
@Rareth
Your character is developing quite a Volkova likeness, which is good (see attached):
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oh its just Genesis Vicky with a couple other morphs, Sassy Hair, and liberal application of my vinyl mat to the clothes in Bryce.
I still need to learn more about DAZ Studio, I find poser easier to use.
Hmm the material in the picture DOES relfect like my vinyl does, thats good to know.. I can stop trying to tweak the reflective properties of it now.
I meant to mention about the vinyl, I would experiment with some blotchyness in the specualr channel, maybe it would give that effect you get when you've run your hand over clean vinyl or latex. It's like with chocolate, when you first remove it from the foil it's perfectly smooth and glossy, but rubbing your finger over it even lightly takes the gloss away.
I would do a similar thing on the vinyl using the specular channel, but only lightly, and you'd have to get the blotchyness scale right as well if you played with it.
I'm using a negative-specular light to get most of the effect, I'll have to see how much tweaking I can get, its already got a bump applied, which would do what you're suggesting, and blurred reflections would also help,
but I find I like the "wet" look on that outfit with Vicky wearing it... :)
Well, I dunno whether you are small or large, but nobody working with Bryce and posting here is insignificant.
@silverdali - Office Politics: great render!
@eireann.sg - great spider.
@David Brinnen - great examples. I like the splash on the first, the lens "flaws" on the second and third, the landscape on the fourth and the stony thingy in the last.
Awww, I thought you didn't go in for any of that "emotional" stuff, eireann? ;-)
@Dave: Are you saying I'd get better results using a sphere dome light in place of the radial light? I decided to switch out the lights, in case that's what you meant. It will be one long render for sure.
@silver: That seems to be right. Office politics does seem to resemble that image. With the bones of the employees scattered about. Nice job. Was the reflecting sphere, I believe you said, from one of David's tutorials?
@David: Those are nice shore line scenes. I particularly like the third one, it looks like lava meeting the sea. The fourth one looks so very serene I want to charter a flight today. And the fourth one looks like a good place for steel toed boots. They're all nicely done.
I meant if you swap your radial red light for a sphere dome red light... yes it will increase your render time, but it will give a more diffused light.
For your scene, you may be better off turning your sun red (you;ll have to play with the colour settings to get it to look just right) and having a normal white radial above the camera to make the foreground white while keeping the background mountains red. Unless you want the red light source to look as if it's coming from inside the stone temple.
Have very quickly put together a similar scene to illustrate what I'm saying in my previous post.
Still a bit too shalow for the sand, but I turned the sand rectangle into an oval. Lowered the main island hills a bit as well. The rock on the right looks a bit like a car for some reason.
I am wondering how much render time it took to create the movie Avatar.
You must be getting money for your renders.
Maybe thats the difference. I am just a hobbyist and try to look at something nice fast.
I'm not sure if this is correct, but I heard a few years ago that the movie Toy Story took over a year for a render farm to render all the frames.
I am not sure about this one. I post worked it a bit.
Winter Goddess. The 3rd face of the Goddess.
Looks great to me.
If I was to make a personal change to my own taste, I'd be tempted to put some of the green misty magic colour you've got floating around her into a strong reflection in her eyes. It would bring her eyes to life a bit... but on the whole, she fits into that scene really well and the material on the dress is especially good. :)
Well, I dunno whether you are small or large, but nobody working with Bryce and posting here is insignificant.
1m82 tall weighing a warping 71 kg :snake:. Now do your math :lol:
I am happy you like my pet. Its about 6mm in size.
@David
What did you mean by 20 high?
Well I'm sure about this, that's a splendid image and I like the concept of making her appearence aged as it feels well matched to the concept of a goddess for the seasons. Winter has always felt aged to me where as spring and summer have always felt youthful. Yet even though it's an aged face it's still an attractive face which makes it fitting to be the face of a goddess.
Well if you aren't interested in doing people and you feel Studio is incompatible then perhaps 3D modeling for you would not be a good hobby to one day turn into profit. I mean I'm essentially suggesting catering to the 3D masses and unfortunately most of them are interested in images centered around people and a great many of them do use Studio so to close yourself off to those aspects of the market would make it much harder to become profitable.
Ah well in a constantly warmish climate without AC then okay maybe being on all the time isn't good for you. Conserving energy is a good thing and certainly I don't mean to discourage that, I only suggested what I did because a good system done right and making good use of hibernation mode doesn't really waste that much energy. I'm not here to try and talk you into something you feel uncomfortable with though so I'll just end it by saying, should you forget in the future to turn it off while you go to exercise, don't be too hard on yourself the planet will survive and your energy bill won't be much different for having made that occasional mistake of forgetting to turn your computer off.
well the Background is a Bryce Render...
Wow, I was using google to try to find something and was surprised to discover Bryce has a wikipedia page. :)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bryce_(software)
The reflective sphere was my own invention I will post an image of the sphere
When did I say it? I look back and can't find it. And I can't remember. Sorry. Can you remember what the context was?
GeroblueJim...looks like you're starting to enjoy this render thingy...very nice developments in your work :)
Chohole...oooh, that looks nice. It sorta of looks non-Chohole-like if you don't mind me saying; where before your Naïve style was instantly recognised. Still, ver nice if your style has changed.
Jay